[Infowarrior] - DOJ legal memos on Einstein 2

[Richard Forno]

(c/o anonymous)

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2009/e2-issues.pdf

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2009/legality-of-e2.pdf

The first memo has a detailed description of Einstein 2, as well as  
this description of recent government-system exploitations:

"Over the past several years, Federal Systems have been subject to  
sophisticated and well-coordinated computer network intrusions and  
exploitations on an unprecedented scale. The Intelligence Community  
has determined that those malicious network activities pose a grave  
threat to national security. See also Center for Strategic and  
International Studies, Securing Cyberspace 11-15 (2008) (discussing  
national security implications of federal network vulnerabilities).  
Those malicious network activities occur at the hands of hostile  
foreign nations (including foreign intelligence services),  
transnational criminal groups and enterprises, and individual computer  
hackers. Recent intrusions and exploitations have resulted in the  
theft of significant amounts of unclassified data from many executive  
departments and agencies, as well as information regarding the  
vulnerabilities of Federal Systems. The unclassified networks of the  
Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, and Commerce, among  
others, have suffered intrusions against their networks and  
exploitations of their data. Accordingly, the Homeland Security  
Council has determined that the deployment of a multi-layered network  
defense system is necessary to protect Federal Systems against these  
ongoing computer intrusions and exploitations carried out by a broad  
array of cyber adversaries."